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Originally Posted by Westsiders
This Leaf Masterpiece card was just listed on Ebay and is stated to be authenticated by either PSA and/or JSA (which I believe is also a requirement of Leaf for them to include the cut auto in a card).
I've been in the market for a Ruth auto for awhile, but am nowhere near an expert. To my untrained eye, the Ruth auto appears to be very slowly written (which is not common for the Ruth auto's I've seen).
My question is this: Is it likely that it was slowly written because Ruth signed it much later in life?
Trying to educate/protect myself as a consumer. Thanks.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2013-Leaf-Ex...item4d0ac96268 |
Babe Ruth's signature was NEVER slowly written even later in life and when he was very sick, Except some signatures you begin to see in 1947 and 1948 that were ghost signed by his wife. And even they are not what I'd call slowly written , and Usually easily identifiable. The baseball displayed at the Hall of Fame as the "last Baseball Signed by Babe Ruth" is signed by his wife.
One of the last things he did before he died was take a trip throughout Florida with Claire he attended many public events and signed alot of autographs , I've seen things documented to have been signed during those events and they are ROBUST. Shortly after the trip he was re admited to the hospital where he died.
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